Nursery

So there is a Yemeni family who have been born and raised in Rafha. They are taking care of Jameelah. The woman who is the age of a grandmother loves jameelah and takes care of her like her own daughter. So i was explaining to her about the expressed milk and I showed it to her. She did not understand it until my colleague explained it to her. She thinks its disgusting. lol So the babysitter would not give her my milk because she thinks that it is bad and will cause her to fall sick. In her mind, milk comes from the breast to mouth - never breast to bottle. It was an unbelievable concept and she feared it would cause harm to Jameelah. Man, there is no convincing an old woman in the middle of the desert. Her expression was like,  "what! how? no! why? yuk!" lol Atleast, Jameelah is in good care, perhaps even better care than I can give.

Here is what I have noticed. The Arabs of the US and in the big cities in the Middle East, speak a different Arabic on a whole different level. Because I am recalling the fushaa Arabic that I learned back at Rutgers. When I would use what I learned in the restaurants of Paterson and the doctors office etc, they would not understand me.(My accent was perfect so that wasn't the issue) Here, in Rafha, I am using what I learned in Rutgers, and they understand me and reply back  to me with the answers I learned back at uni. So the language is pure and has not evolved here as much. I am so glad Jameelah is going to learned the purest of Arabic, Alhumdulilah